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Practice and training norms and recommended minimum standards are available internationally for MBSR and MBCT. However, they are not available for delivering non-eight-week mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) adapted for specific contexts and populations. The delivery of these MBIs raises dilemmas for organisations with responsibility for safe and effective practice that invites us to steer a middle course between prohibition and permissiveness and between idealism and pragmatism. One response to practitioners delivering adapted MBIs is discussed with reference to a new briefer but specifically tailored training for those delivering adapted MBIs in a UK government-funded health service.
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The author wishes to thank the other trainers who have contributed in different ways to the delivery of this training: Bridgette O’Neill, Taravajra, Karunavira, Nick Diggins, Kavyashri, Ann Pelling, Clara Strauss, Fergal Jones, Maeve Crowley, Ines Santos, Julia Racster-Szostak, Mike Hales, Helga Dittmar, Helen Leigh-Phippard, Tamsin Bishton, Susan Whiting, Martin Stent, Ruth Kendall, Brenda Davis, Caroline Windley, Lisa Burroughes, Pippa Menzies and Adrian Whittington, as well as all the trainees who participated so whole-heartedly in the training.
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Marx, R. Navigating Dilemmas in Training People to Deliver Non-Eight-Week Adapted Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Mindfulness 10, 1217–1221 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01110-0
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